Ford Airport (Iron Mountain)
Ford Airport (IATA: IMT, ICAO: KIMT, FAA LID: IMT) is a county owned, public use airport in Dickinson County, Michigan, United States. It is located three nautical miles (6 km) west of the central business district of Iron Mountain, in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The airport offers scheduled service from one commercial airline which is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. It is also a hub for FedEx Feeder operator CSA Air.
Ford Airport serves the greater Dickinson County area which includes the cities of Iron Mountain, Kingsford and Norway in Michigan and the bordering Wisconsin communities of Aurora, Florence and Niagara. Its service area also includes portions of Iron and Menominee counties in Michigan and Florence and Marinette counties in Wisconsin.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 3,998 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 5,475 enplanements in 2009, and 6,943 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).
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